Mr. Chairman and Commissioners, you have handed, or were placed at your seats,
a revised alcohol beverage brown bagging ordinance.
There were some changes that came about, wording changes,
yesterday, after our work session.

Ah, that passive voice!
I guess it was the ordinance elf that made those changes and left paper
copies at each Commissioner's seat.
The ordinance elf didn't put a copy of that draft on the web where
the rest of us could see it, however.

County Attorney Walter Elliott clarified:

The only changes are to sections 5b and 6b and that change clarifies
that the chair of the civic and other organizations listed must be
organizations that are organized and operated as nonprofit organizations
and social works removed from that word.
So that clarifies that events at which brown bags are allowed under
that exception are events of nonprofit organizations.

Commissioners (whispering to each other first)
wanted clarification that restrictions didn't apply at private residences.

Correct.
This permits brownbagging at private residences without any time limitation.
It also permits brownbagging at private events held on an occasional basis,
but only up to 1:55 AM, which is the time that a licensed seller may sell
alcohol.
And it permits brownbagging at events of charitable, civic, and other
nonprofit organizations.

We didn't get to see any version of it before they adopted it,
so if citizens had concerns they didn't have a way to see what the
Comissioners were considering.
One of the Commissioners said they did get questions.
Such questions would be more informed if people could see what
they were asking about before asking.